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Category: Alumni

Beth Sturman secures position at thrv

Published: November 6, 2022

Congratulations to Beth Sturman who filed her dissertation in September 2022 and started a position as a Growth Strategist at thrv.com, a market research firm. She says she does qualitative…

Category: Awards, Celebrations, Faculty

Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer (now at UCI) get an NSF grant

Published: September 26, 2022

Congratulations to Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the years 2022-2026 for their work, A new approach to computational model evaluation: Benchmarking…

Category: Conferences

UCLA @ SuB 27

Published: September 14, 2022

Sinn und Bedeutung 27 is happening this week, hosted by the Charles University in Prague. The program features several talks by UCLA linguists: Kalen Chang: Restrictiveness and the scope of adjectives…

Category: Celebrations, General

Natasha Korotkova to join University of Utrecht faculty

Published: August 30, 2022

NATASHA KOROTKOVA (UCLA Ph.D, 2016) has been hired as an Universitair Docent at University College Utrecht, a liberal arts college within the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. (A Universitair…

Category: Celebrations, General

Richard Stockwell to join Ulster University faculty

Published: August 30, 2022

RICHARD STOCKWELL (UCLA Ph.D., 2020) has been hired as a Lecturer in Linguistics at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (A Lecturer position in the UK is roughly equivalent to…

Category: Celebrations, General

Maura O’Leary to join Swarthmore College faculty

Published: May 31, 2022

Maura O’Leary has just accepted a three-year Visiting Assistant Professorship at Swarthmore College. Maura is a semanticist, field researcher, and teacher who recently defended her dissertation “About time: Lexical, Structural,…

Category: Journal Publications

Hiro Katsuda and Jeremy Steffman publish in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters

Published: May 23, 2022

A paper by Hiro Katsuda (5th year PhD candidate) and Jeremy Steffman (UCLA PhD 2020) has just been accepted to Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters. The title of the paper is…

Category: General, Undergraduate Students

Bruin Linguists Society is excited to be hosting SCULC 2022 this Saturday!

Published: May 19, 2022

SCULC (the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference) will be held again at the Learning Pavilion in Campbell Hall by the University of California, Los Angeles Linguistics Department and the undergraduate-run linguistics…

Category: General

Z.L. Zhou on LSA Executive Committee

Published: May 18, 2022

Z.L. Zhou has been appointed Interim Student Representative to the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America, serving through December 2022. Congratulations Z.L., and thank you for serving our professional society!

Category: General

Phonetics Seminar: Jiyoung Kim (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese), “Exploring the perception-production link in heritage languages”

Published: May 18, 2022

To be held on May 9th

The Department of Linguistics

Beth Sturman secures position at thrv

Megha Sundara and Connor Mayer (now at UCI) get an NSF grant

UCLA @ SuB 27

Natasha Korotkova to join University of Utrecht faculty

Richard Stockwell to join Ulster University faculty

Maura O’Leary to join Swarthmore College faculty

Hiro Katsuda and Jeremy Steffman publish in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters

Bruin Linguists Society is excited to be hosting SCULC 2022 this Saturday!

Z.L. Zhou on LSA Executive Committee

Phonetics Seminar: Jiyoung Kim (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese), “Exploring the perception-production link in heritage languages”

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